“This presentation at our Receptive Tour Operator event in Orlando yesterday was as excellent as it was hilarious due to the Trump word clouds at the end,” said Jake Steinman.

Destination Analysts’ annual study, The State of the International Traveler,™ offers an in depth look at internationally oriented leisure travelers in the top 14 U.S. feeder markets. Developed specifically for DMOs, this groundbreaking international travel research delves into the behaviors and perceptions of international travelers to 65 American destinations tracking by:

Familiarity

Appeal

Likelihood of Visitation

Promotional Buzz

Bragging Rights

Thanks to David Reichbach, Director of Analytics and Data Security at Destination Analysts, who last week during NAJ’s RTO Summit in Orlando, presented 28 information-packed slides—a portion of the study—illustrating an overview of international travelers’ consumer sentiment.

We’re fortunate to be able to share his Powerpoint summary via Dropbox here.

This week in Brussels, US and European officials are expected to convene a high level meeting as the Department of Homeland Security considers expanding a laptop ban imposed on certain North Africa and Middle East-originating flights to encompass Europe, possibly including the U.K.

“The airline industry fears the extended security measure will mean longer security lines, heightened delays and confusion at boarding gates during the busy summer period,” reports The Guardian. Last year, 30 million people flew to the US from Europe and 3,257 flights from 28 European Union countries are scheduled this summer.

“It looks like it’s coming, in some form or another.” – Chris Reiter, Bloomberg News in Berlin.

Meanwhile, the EU has raised concerns about the safety of flying mountains of electronic devices with lithium batteries in cargo holds, especially following in-flight combustion caused two FedEx and UPS commercial jumbo jets to crash in 2010 and 2011.

World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) released its annual Economic Impact Research report for 2017 showing that the country’s travel and tourism sector provided $1.5 trillion to the economy in 2016 and supported more than 14 million jobs.

The outlook for 2017 is less than rosy. Our sister newsletter, Inbound Report, published an industry roundup in April. Read more here.

Related news: Why did a UK tech lawyer comment, “In the short to medium term, I think the answer is going to be avoiding all but absolutely essential travel to the United States.” Read more here.

Related news: Why did the USA drop two places to #6 in popularity as a global destination? Read more here.

(Editor’s Note: As this report was prepared, a U.S. Appellate Court ruling sustaining a stay against President Trump’s executive order imposing a travel ban on certain international visitors was still in place. Most of what follows is based on developments that occurred while the ban was still in effect.)

Ever since the evening of Jan. 27, 2017, much of the global tour and travel industry has been writhing in turmoil in the wake of an executive order signed that day by President Donald Trump which keeps refugees from entering the USA for 120 days and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations out for three months. The countries affected are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. While this suggests the “extreme vetting” Trump alluded to during the 2016 presidential campaign, it still seems to have caught most Americans, as well as the leaders of other nations, by surprise.

What are the global implications for U.S. inbound tourism? Read the full article with insights from various industry sources in Inbound Report, NAJ’s sister publication, here.